AJIT-e: Academic Journal of Information Technology

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Nowadays, reaching information and people becomes faster and easier due to the development of information and communication technologies. Development of electronic networks provides many opportunities such as getting information, sharing, two-way communication etc. The technology, which has become an essential part of teenagers' lives, brings some negative and detrimental issues in its wake. Communication technologies have been abused and become a tool that teenagers use for conscious and intentional bullying. The main purpose of this research is to comparatively analyze the cyber bullying issues of the students of Vocational High School, which is in Bilecik district of Şanlıurfa, and the students of Harran University Birecik Vocational College. The study group of the research has 369 Vocational High School and 132 Vocational College students consisting of students of Harran University Birecik Vocational College Marketing and Advertising Department's Public Relations Program, students of Birecik Girls' Trade Vocational High School and Birecik Boys' Vocational High School. The data of the study were collected through face-to-face, online survey using the "Cyber Bullying Scale" developed. The statistical analyses of the data were conducted by using SPSS 22.0 program. Shapiro-Wilk test was performed to look at the normal distributions of numeric variables and a normal distribution was achieved. Parametric tests were used in dataset. Frequency, percentage, arithmetic average, standard deviation, minimum and maximum values were used to analyze descriptive statistics. Independent sample t test in the mean comparison of two independent groups. and the UNI-ANOVA (One-way Variance Analysis of Variance) test was used to compare single independent and multiple independent groups. The results were evaluated at a 95% confidence interval, at a significance level of 0.05.